The study of error sources for MOSAIC/DME system: A single station based positioning system for APNT

Author

O-Jong Kim ; Chongwon Kim ; Junesol Song ; Younsil Kim ; Changdon Kee

Author_Institution

Inst. of Adv. Aerosp. Technol., Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

5-8 May 2014

Firstpage

855

Lastpage

863

Abstract

This paper presents a new kind of navigation system, a single station based 3-dimensional positioning system, named MOSAIC/DME. Particularly, its possible error sources, such as tropospheric delay, antenna misalignment and multipath are studied and applied to simulations for understanding and verification of this system. For tropospheric and multipath simulations, WAAS tropospheric model and ray-tracing approach are applied respectively. The results present that MOSAIC/DME system is vulnerable to small errors in signal, because of the bad geometry using only a single station for positioning. But this system also has its own advantage to treat those errors.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; Monte Carlo methods; aircraft navigation; distance measurement; ray tracing; APNT; MOSAIC-DME system; Monte-Carlo simulations; WAAS tropospheric model; alternative positioning navigation and timing; antenna misalignment; distance measuring equipment; error sources; multipath simulations; navigation system; ray-tracing approach; single station based 3-dimensional positioning system; tropospheric delay; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Arrays; Atmospheric modeling; Delays; Mathematical model; Phase measurement; APNT; DME; MOSAIC/DME; MULTIPATH; PSEUDOLITE; RAY-TRACING;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Position, Location and Navigation Symposium - PLANS 2014, 2014 IEEE/ION

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3319-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLANS.2014.6851452

Filename

6851452